: A direct PDF version of the complete text is hosted on Coronzon Press [1].

Animals live in a state of eternal present; humans live in the awareness of time.

Until a publisher steps forward to reprint Richard Howard’s masterful translation, readers will continue to trade scans, share links, and refresh library catalogs. It is, in its own way, a very Cioranian state of affairs: seeking meaning (or at least a PDF) in a universe that denies you permanence.